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150 teachers will have to reapply for jobs after failures to meet goals
by Bill Turque About 150 teachers at six low-
performing D.C. public schools must reapply for their jobs under a shake-up announced Monday by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. Three of the schools — Ballou Senior High and Garfield and Stanton elementary — are in Ward 8. The others are Davis El- ementary in Ward 7 and two Ward 5 schools: the Hamilton Center for special education students and Luke C. Moore Academy, an alternative high school for those who drop out or have trouble ad- justing to traditional schools. One of the six, Stanton, will be
operated beginning this summer by a Philadelphia-based charter school organization, Scholar
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Academies. The changes are mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which gives Rhee options to address problems at schools that have consistently failed to make what the law describes as “ad- equate yearly progress” on stan- dardized test scores. Overall, about 90 of the District’s 123 schools are under some form of federal notice to improve. The six schools cited Monday, with a combined enrollment of about 2,200, have undergone waves of federally mandated im- provement and restructuring. Four of them — Ballou, Stanton, Hamilton and Garfield — have not met annual progress bench- marks for at least seven years. They will undergo what the law calls staff “reconstitution.” “At DCPS we know that all chil- dren can achieve at high levels,” Rhee said in a statement released Monday. “Reconstitution is just one tool offered by the federal government for districts to use to equip schools with the necessary composition to meet high stan-
dards.” Last year, Rhee reconstituted six schools, Dunbar and Anacos- tia high schools, the H.D. Wood- son ninth-grade academy at Ron- ald H. Brown Middle School, Hart and MacFarland middle schools and Ferebee-Hope Elementary School. In 2008, 17 schools were reconstituted. Ten received new administrators; seven underwent faculty overhauls. Teachers who choose not to re- apply or are not rehired at the schools facing overhaul this year will join an “excess staff pool.” Under the current contract with the Washington Teachers’ Union, all “excessed” teachers are guaranteed reassignment in the school system.
But under a labor agreement
expected to receive D.C. Council approval June 29, principals have expanded power to choose the teachers they want. Those who have received good evaluations and do not find jobs will receive a year’s grace period with full salary to continue looking for a position. Or they could take a buyout or
early retirement if eligible. In the case of Stanton, Rhee has
exercised her option under the law to hire an outside organiza- tion to take over a failing school. Scholar Academies operates Young Scholars, a charter middle school that serves about 200 low- income African American chil- dren in Philadelphia. According to its Web site, it uses an extended school day and school year to im- prove academic rigor. Rhee said in the statement that the organization was selected af- ter a “rigorous” application proc- ess that included a site visit to the Philadelphia school. Three high schools were placed under outside leadership by Rhee in 2008. Dunbar and Coolidge were taken over by Friends of Bedford, a New York group. Friendship Public Charter Schools assumed control of Ana- costia. Rhee has said that al- though major academic progress has yet to be made, all three have “significantly improved their school culture,” including gains in attendance and school safety.
Apprentice programs swamped with applicants tradesmen from B1
he began working as a furniture mover in the District to pay the bills and discovered the satisfac- tion that comes with an empty truck at the end of a day. A legal career seemed too much like drudgery. “I have friends my age who are just deciding to go to graduate school,” said Osielski, who gradu- ated this month from an appren- ticeship program run by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 in Lanham. “I’m glad to be already working and developing a ca- reer.”
The college drumbeat Economists and labor scholars
say the rocky economy has been a boon for trade schools. But they also point to policymakers, guid- ance counselors and parents who don’t value the trades and over- value college as the gateway to success. As a result, American students come to trade appren- ticeships relatively late, often af- ter they’ve already tried college. The average age of the beginning apprentice in the United States is 25; in Germany, 18. “It’s hard to get high school counselors to point anyone but their not-very-good students, or the ones in trouble, toward con- struction,” said Dale Belman, a la- bor economist at Michigan State University. “Counselors want everyone to go to college. So now we’re getting more of the college- educated going into the trades.” Jarrad Taylor, for one, always assumed while growing up in Pennsylvania that he would at- tend college. An honors student in high school, it’s what his guid- ance counselors advised him to do. It’s what his mother and fa- ther, who was a machinist and welder, wanted for him. So he attended Penn State for
two years, taking courses in engi- neering and creative writing. Then he went looking for a sum- mer job. A family friend who is a plumber needed an assistant for a job in the Washington area, and Taylor’s parents urged him to go. “My parents told him to work the hell out of me so I’d run back to college,” said Taylor, now 30. “Seven years later, here I am.” Taylor was accepted into an ap- prentice program run by unions for plumbers, pipe fitters and sprinkler installers. He now works for a mid-size construction firm in Maryland and vacations in Europe.
Apprentices start out getting paid half the scale for experi- enced workers, with raises every six months. Ultimately, many
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Boston law school dean to lead CU
Accomplished scholar has tackled several controversial issues
by Daniel de Vise
John H. Garvey, a law school dean with a long record of schol- arship on some of the most divi- sive issues in the Catholic Church, on Tuesday will be named the new president of Catholic University of America. Garvey, dean of the Boston Col-
lege Law School since 1999, will re- place David M. O’Connell as presi- dent of Catholic, the na- tional university of the Roman Catholic Church. O’Connell announced his departure in the fall and was tapped this month as bishop-elect of the Dio- cese of Trenton, N.J. The transition marks a
significant shift for Catholic, which has spent the past dozen years re- discovering its spiritual identity under the guid- ance of an energetic cler- ic. Leadership now passes to a lay administrator, who spent a semes- ter at Harvard Divinity School be- fore moving to Harvard Law, where he graduated in 1974. Garvey, 61, will be the third lay president of Catholic. The last was Edmund Pellegrino, a doctor and medical ethicist who served from 1978 to 1982. The search committee was not looking for a lay president; in fact, trustees had a mild preference for another clerical leader, said the Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron, arch- bishop of Detroit, who chairs the university’s board of trustees and led the nine-month search. “The board would have seen a lot of advantages to having a priest be the president, but in the end the board asked the search committee to put forward the best candi- dates,” he said.
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Jarrad Taylor had some preparation for his career: He studied mechanical engineering while at Penn State. He used to be embarrassed by his job, but having a fatter wallet than his friends’ has ended that.
make as much or more as they would in jobs requiring a college degree. Licensed journeymen can expect to be paid $65,000 to $85,000 a year, depending on overtime. Local apprentice programs,
which typically last five years, are swamped with applicants nowa- days. The electricians’ union pro- gram, for example, has 2,500 ap- plications for 100 slots. And near- ly 4,000 want to get one of the 300 slots at plumbers and pipe fitters school. The number of openings varies each year depending on the amount of work contractors ex- pect, so virtually all apprentices are working full-time. The reces- sion didn’t change that, although it did affect the demand for some journeymen. These will not be the people you call to fix a clogged toilet or plaster a hole in the drywall. Most gravitate to commercial construction, where digital equipment has made the ability to decipher technical manuals and complicated building codes crucial. Many aspire to be fore- men or own their own business. Nationwide, 550,000 people are enrolled in registered ap- prenticeship programs, accord- ing to the Labor Department, and the number of students in unregistered programs might be almost as high. But determining how many went to college is difficult. Bu- reau of Labor Statistics surveys
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY,MARYLAND
JACOB GEESING, ET AL. 4520 EastWest Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda,MD20814 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs
NATALIE E. LAROCHELLE 18042 Chalet Drive, Unit # 25-102 Germantown,MD20874 Defendant(s)
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The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $110,000.00.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY,MARYLAND
JACOB GEESING, ET AL. 4520 EastWest Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda,MD20814 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs
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The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $149,600.00.
Clerk of the Circuit Court For County of Montgomery
Loretta E. Knight
from 2009 show that more than 7 percent of workers in the con- struction trade have at least a bachelor’s degree, up from less than 6 percent in 1990 and 2000. The surveys are small, though, and not statistically reliable. In the early 1970s, Robert Glov-
er, an economics professor at the University of Texas, studied ap- prenticeship programs in nine cities. He found that 27 percent of journeymen in six construction trades had at least 13 years of schooling. Among the tradesmen he interviewed was an electrician with a bachelor’s degree in aero- space engineering and a bricklay- er who was listening to classical music on the radio. “It woke me up,” he said.
“There is a strong anti-manual- work bias in this country. I fell prey to it, too.”
Blue-collar pride
Brian Jones, 30, sometimes feels it. Originally from southern Virginia, he studied physics on an academic scholarship to McDaniel College in Westmin- ster, Md., hoping to get a job as an engineer with NASA or an avi- ation company after he graduat- ed in 2002. He watched friends with lower grades land jobs through family contacts, but he couldn’t find one. Then a friend suggested that he could make as much money as an electrician. He just finished his third year as an apprentice. “It’s not the same as a job with,
say, Lockheed, with a lot of office politics,” he said. “In the electri-
cal trade, your knowledge and ac- tions speak for themselves. The only downside is the prestige. If you say you work for a multina- tional, half-trillion-dollar com- pany, versus, ‘I’m an electrician,’ it doesn’t have the same ring.” That doesn’t matter to Ratee-
luck Puvapiromquan, 30, the daughter of two teachers who im- migrated to Baltimore from Thai- land. She decided to become an electrician when the only jobs she found after graduating from St. Mary’s College in 2001 with a degree in the philosophy of reli- gion were in coffee shops and ho- tels. Her friends, who have gone on to get master’s degrees or doc- torates, are proud of her. “They tell me they’re intrigued, amazed and proud they know a woman electrician,” she said. “I don’t understand the idea that if you go to college, manual labor is beneath you. The critical think- ing and communication skills I learned in college are absolutely crucial to getting our work done. It’s critical thinking, not just, ‘I lift heavy objects.’ ” But Taylor, the Penn State dropout, admits that it was hard on him when his friends graduat- ed and he didn’t. “When people asked me what I
do, I’d say, ‘I’m a plumber.’ ” He cups his mouth with his hand and bows his head while he whis- pers this. “Now I’m proud of it. Most of
my friends from college are in IT. And I have more discretionary income than all of them.”
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mittee, assisted by an outside search firm, considered more than 200 people for the job, although he would not specify the number of candidates. Nor would he confirm reports, circulating in religious blogs, that Garvey was one of two finalists. The other was said to be H. James Towey, president of Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., and also a lay administrator. Trustees settled on Garvey at a
June 7 meeting, Vigneron said, and he accepted the job that day. Vatican approval, required for any new Catholic University president, took an additional two days. Vigneron said the university
John Garvey starts his new job in July.
board expects Garvey to continue O’Connell’s work to reclaim a Catholic identity for the Northeast Washington campus. O’Connell raised the share of students and faculty who self-identified as Catholics and hosted Pope Ben- edict XVI in a 2008 visit. He said trustees also appreciated the legal mind Garvey has brought to bear in analyzing Catholic quandaries. “I’m very grateful that he’s an ac- complished scholar, and I think he brings from his legal scholarship a lot of wis- dom about the church’s place in contemporary society,” Vigneron said. “He’s a very thoughtful man, very measured. He tries to bring light and insight to matters about which there’s a lot of ar- gument.” Garvey clerked for Ir-
ving R. Kaufman, a feder- al appeals judge known for having presided over
the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and impos- ing their death sentences. Before joining Boston College, he was an assistant to the solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan and a law professor at the Univer- sity of Kentucky and Notre Dame. His legal writings have some- times gravitated toward contro- versial topics. In a 2003 law review piece, Garvey wrote the church had “no credibility” in policing sexual misconduct by priests. In a 1998 article, he wrote that the church’s opposition to the death penalty placed Catholic judges in a moral and legal dilemma. In a 1996 book, he said freedom of choice had been “exploited, to good political effect,” by the “pro- choice” abortion rights movement. As law school dean, Garvey is credited with bringing nationally recognized figures to campus, in- cluding Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who spoke at 2009’s commencement. Garvey will start work at Catho-
lic in July at an undisclosed salary. He will be introduced to the Wash- ington community Tuesday at a news conference. A biographical sketch says he is married, the fa- ther of five and enjoys swimming, gardening, piano and golf.
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Potomac Yard project raises traffic, tax fears
by Christy Goodman
Alexandria officials are reshap- ing the north end of Potomac Yard as a multi-billion-dollar develop- ment with 7.5million square feet of residential, retail and commer- cial space.
But the prospect of higher tax- es, more traffic and the loss of prized retail stores has some resi- dents expressing reservations about the City Council’s approval Saturday of plans to redevelop 69 acres. The tract is bordered to the north by Four Mile Run, to the west by Route 1 and to the south by East Glebe Road. City officials have said the
$3 billion to $4 billion develop- ment cannot progress without a financial plan for a Metro station on the Yellow and Blue lines. They estimate that a station off an East Glebe Road extension could cost $190 million to $270 million, de- pending on its location. To help pay for the station, the council will consider creating two special tax districts in the fall to supplement developer contribu- tions and taxes on the construc- tion. The districts would add 10 or 20 cents per $100 of assessed val- ue to a property’s tax bill to help repay bonds the city would issue to finance construction. Mayor William D. Euille (D)
said before considering the tax districts, officials will meet with affected communities, such as Po- tomac Greens, one of the largest. Rob Zitz, a Potomac Greens res- ident, said that when he bought his house, he was told his proper- ty might become part of a special tax district. He said, however, that the city has not engaged him or his neighbors on the issue. Zitz said city officials told him when the development is completed, his property value will rise. “We say, ‘You know what? It probably will, but so will our real estate taxes, given the assessment on our prop- erty. Why should we pay twice?’ ” Up to 2.25 million square feet could be developed, even if plans for the Metro station fall through,
and that has some residents wor- ried about traffic. Plans exist to dedicate lanes for bus, streetcar or other high-capacity transit to con- nect Route 1 and a new Potomac Avenue to Arlington County’s Crystal Drive. Officials said that would be completed before con- struction begins on the Metro sta- tion. Construction will begin later this year on a new street grid be- tween Route 1 and Potomac Av- enue, said Mark Jinks, Alexan- dria’s deputy city manager. “I guess at some point, you just
have to go on faith” that the Metro station will be built, said David Fromm, a Del Ray resident. “There is a degree of certainty”
that the station will make its way through the estimated three-year federal environmental review process, said Rich Baier, Alexan- dria’s head of transportation. To make way for the devel- opment, some successful stores, such as a Shopper’s Food Ware- house and a Target in the Potomac Yard Shopping Center, would have to be demolished. The shopping center’s “income and success of its stores far ex- ceeded the projections,” Jinks said. “As a result, it is not easy to say, ‘Let’s scrap it and start over.’ ” The Target is “one of the best in the nation at times,” he added. Those businesses could reopen in the new complex, said Dan McCaffery, president of McCaffery Interests, the project’s developer. Because Alexandria officials want the development to be “green,” sidewalk and street sur- faces would allow rainwater to percolate through to the ground water, and runoff would be col- lected and used for irrigation, said Faroll Hamer, Alexandria’s planning director.
Some tall buildings are planned for the property’s center, but low- er densities are planned near Route 1. Affordable housing is planned, along with parks, wide sidewalks, connections to bike lanes and public art. “We really are going to create a
new city,” Hamer said.
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